Hello, Dear Friends, I hope that you are feeling a renewed sense of
hope and happiness that at least, it is finally, officially spring.
Although...spring can be fickle, I know, and takes its own sweet time.
Much like me, these days!
For every beautiful, sunny day, there are equally cold and rainy ones,
but that just gives me an excuse to get some housework done,
and catch up with all of you!
My local grocery store has a full garden center,
(I know, how lucky am I?),
and I've been collecting a few pansies
every time I go, to pot up for my deck.
I just love those sweet little faces.
Don't you just love crocus, too?
I keep them in tubs because rodents
eat the bulbs if I plant them in the ground.
Out-witting mother nature is sometimes a challenge!
And, of course, there's daffodils!
These are at the entry gate.
I planted these years ago,
and they are still making me smile.
The device on top of the post is a solar panel for the
automatic gate.
I just hit the remote and it opens for me!
I don't have to get out of the vehicle and manually open it
anymore. That was a nightmare late at night.
(Theme song for 'The Twilight Zone', here :)
We have regular cougar and bear sightings.
I would get such anxiety when I had to come home after dark!
Little drops of sunshine.
I planted these miniature daffodils last fall.
Every year I try to plant a few more.
The best part is that the deer and rodents won't touch them!
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I planted deer-resistant wildflower seeds in the fenced in area behind them and you can
see some are already coming up.
Of course, I am never alone!
This is not a garden hose...
This healthy-looking guy was sunning himself at the back
of the garden and didn't seem the least bit
afraid of me.
Luckily, I noticed him, and quickly finished up so as not
to disturb him.
He's a simple garden snake who likes to eat slugs, so he can stay.
After that, I decided I needed to go inside and soothe my nerves
with a cup of tea!
I've added a few Easter decorations here and there.
(You can see Ramblin' Man's honey-do list on the table :)
Just a few of my favorite things.
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Everyone needs some gingham eggs, don't you think?
Beatrix Potter.
Some of her stories were a little macabre!
But the illustrations are so charming.
I decided to add a little bit of pink to all the green,
so, I crocheted another tiny garland.
I kept the wreath and straw bag from St. Patrick's Day but added the sweet sheep picture.
It's a little bit crooked, I see :)
Of course, it wouldn't be Easter without a few bunnies :)
Another woolly sheep and chickee dishes.
I found these at Hobby Lobby last year at an after-Easter sale.
More chicks and my favorite bunny.
Isn't he so dear?
I made him a little Easter basket.
It's a biodegradable plant pot wrapped in burlap ribbon
with a crocheted flower.
The Mr. added a wire handle.
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I'm hosting Easter dinner this year.
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We had lovely wild plum display until a storm that brought
high winds, rain and blizzard conditions
in the mountains.
We lost power at the height of the storm and were
sitting in front of the fire, reading with our head lamps
when all of a sudden, we heard a huge 'boom - boom, boom!' that shook the house.
It was dark and we couldn't see clearly, but we
could tell that a tree had fallen on the roof over the library.
We took flashlights and went out into the driving rain and wind
and took a look around and it looked bad.
Then the roof started leaking.
This is what we woke up to.
We've had a dead hemlock that has been coming down in pieces
every time there's a storm.
This is the second time a piece has hit the roof.
I truly believe in angels or the hand of God,
because, considering all of the things that could've happened,
we've been extremely lucky.
Most of the tree hit the ground, but this one section hit the roof, missed the woodstove chimney,
rolled off, hit my little glass bistro table and landed on the unscathed deck!
The only casualties on the deck were the table and a couple of my inexpensive pots.
The bistro chairs survived with one of them folding onto the floor of the deck.
My beautiful, blue glazed pots came away unscathed.
The only structural damage - three broken branch stubs embedded in the roof.
The leaks ran down to the top of the glass doors and dripped from there,
so, the wood ceiling was undamaged.
It rained hard for another day and finally cleared enough for
the Mr. to get up and patch things until he could
hire someone to fix the damage.
That stopped the leakage.
When my son, Dustin heard what happened, he convinced his Dad
that they could fix the roof themselves.
We had some leftover shingles and Dustin had some plywood,
so, all they needed was some of the waterproof paper to go underneath.
It took two days of steady work.
I was in charge of keeping them fueled :)
Egg salad sandwiches for lunch, oatmeal spice cake,
and Chicken pot pie with plenty of hot coffee.
Up on the roof completing the job!
Two of our grandsons stopped by to take a look
with their Dad.
(You can see him behind the Mr. with the yellow hat brim)
He brought a dehumidifier to dry out the leak.
Look at how tall the grandsons are getting!
The finished project.
You would never know...
Thank you to my wonderful, hard-working, very tired guys!
So grateful for you!
xoxo
I saw this beautiful rainbow on my way home from the grocery store
the other day.
The signs are from our local veterinary clinic.
The sun is now setting past our little mountain and giving us this
gorgeous light show in the evening.
It looks like there is a road passing through, but it is actually
high tension power lines.
I've watched as helicopters drop lineman in baskets to
inspect the lines.
There are no roads out there, except for logging roads that are gated.
The last of the light.
Can you see the jet illuminated by the sun?
It's headed south-west.
Someplace warm, I'm guessing.
It's 35 degrees here.
And it's hailing!
Hey - wait for me!!
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I hope that you have a lovely Easter Sunday, dear friends.
And Happy Spring!
xoxo
"It is Spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart."
- Rainer Maria Rilke -
"That is one good thing about this world...
There are always sure to be more Springs."
- L.M. Montgomery -
'Anne of Avonlea'
"In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather
inside of 24 hours."
- Mark Twain -
